A Guide to the Exhibition in the King's Library Illustrating the History of Printing, Music-printing and Bookbinding

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Page 100 - THE HOLY BIBLE, conteyning the Old ' Testament and the New : Newly Translated out of the ' Originall Tongues : and with the former Translations ' diligently compared and reuised, by his Maiesties ' speciall Commandement . Appointed to be read in
Page 103 - ... Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, Not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers.
Page 104 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Page 104 - By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon and Then a Captain of Several Ships.
Page 89 - Biblia — the Bible, that is, the Holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament faithfully and truly translated out of Douche and Latyn in to Englishe.
Page 58 - I myght this sayd book, therfore I haue practysed and lerned at my grete charge and dispense to ordeyne this said book, in prynte after the maner and forme as ye may here see, and is not wreton with penne and ynke as other bokes ben...
Page 58 - And for as moche as in the wrytyng of the same my penne is worn / myn hande wery and not stedfast myn eyen dimmed with ouermoche lokyng on the whit paper / and my corage not so prone and redy to laboure as hit hath ben / and that age crepeth on me dayly and febleth all the bodye...
Page 92 - So much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby as relates to her Domestic History, and to the Eventful Period of King Charles the First, the Protectorate, and the Restoration (1635 to 1663).
Page 100 - Shakespeare.— MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. London, Printed by ISAAC IAGGARD and ED. BLOUNT. 1623...
Page 94 - For the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints in Publick and Private, especially in New England.

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